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Overfishing threatens quarter of key grouper species

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SciDev.net

Publication Date
2013-05-09

A quarter of grouper fish species face extinction or are near threatened because of overfishing and poor management of coral reef fisheries, and a further 30 per cent are so understudied there is not enough data to assess how threatened they are, according to a study.

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http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/fisheries/news/overfishing-threatens-quarter-of-key-grouper-species.html